Brian Mcveigh

Interpreting Japan

Approaches and Applications for the Classroom

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Produktbeschreibung

Informed by teaching courses on Japan for many years, this book offers university students a handy "how to" guide for interpreting Japanese society and conducting their own research. Stressing the importance of an interdisciplinary approach, the author lays out practical and understandable research approaches in a systematic fashion to demonstrate how, with the right conceptual tools and enough bibliographical sources, Japanese society can be productively analyzed from a distance. This book is an essential guide for any student starting a course on Japanese Studies; it will also be useful on more general courses with a cross-cultural comparative focus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 176mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415730143
• ISBN-10: 0415730147
• Artikelnr.: 40333555

Autorenporträt

Brian J. McVeigh is presently training in counseling at the School of Health Sciences, Sage Graduate School and teaches at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona. The author of seven books, he is currently investigating the history of Japanese psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: To Students and Instructors Part 1: Approaches and Analytics 1.
Myths: Images and Realities of Japan 2. Rituals: Understanding Patterned
Practices and Behaviors 3. Exchange: Analyzing the Flow and Transfer of
Goods and Values 4. Macro-Micro Levels: Linking the Everyday with Political
Economic Institutions 5. Symbols: Interpreting Images, Representations, and
Meanings 6. Identity: How Collectivities Configure a Sense of Self 7.
Popular Culture: Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure as Interpretative Windows
8. Ownership: The Relationship Among Property, Politics, and Personhood 9.
Embodiment: The Senses, Aesthetics, and Knowledge Formation 10. Theatrics:
Social Life as Dramatization Part 2: Applications, Examples, and
Illustrations 11. Schooling as an Exchange with the National State 12. The
Rhythms and Organizations of Schooling 13. Social Mobility and Class in
Japan 14. Japan's Corporate Culture and Economic Liberty 15. Political
Liberation: Examples from History and Art 16. Liberalist Ideologies and
their Practice in Japan 17. Searching for "Authentic" Japanese Identity:
Portrayals in Popular Art 18. Delineating the "Mainstream" Identity of the
Japanese 19. The Symbolism of Spatial Experience 20. Making Sense of Sound:
Japanese Auditory Symbolism 21. Conceptual Basics of the Japanese Language
22. How Japanese Encodes Time as Spatial Relations 23. How Political
Economics Shapes Politeness 24. Manners and Morals in Everyday Life 25.
Gender Relations in Popular Art: Commentary and Critical Appraisals 26.
Cuteness: Daily Aesthetics as Resistance to Social Order 27. Changing
Patterns and Perceptions of the Japanese Family 28. Japanese Spirituality:
Purification and Festivals 29. The Vitalism of Japan's New Religions 30.
Technology, Time, and the Culture of the Copy 31. The Magic of Technology:
Fears and Fantasies in Japanese Science Fiction 32. Royal Weddings: The
Self-presentation of the State Epilogue: Lessons from Japan: The
"Staginess" of Postmodern Social Life